Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of ...

Accident at US repository highlights need for tougher safety monitoring, say experts. A serious accident in February at the United States’ only deep-storage repository for nuclear waste might never ...

One of the great failures in U.S. energy policy was that we’ve never figured out what to do with the lethally radioactive waste produced by nuclear power plants. That’s why the owners of the ...

As Europe braces for a difficult winter, with energy prices still high and energy supplies at risk, the energy efficiency challenge feels more urgent than ever. One European company that has been ...

Warning signs: a recent study suggests that we need to rethink plans for the long-term storage of nuclear waste. (Courtesy: iStock) An accelerated corrosion process in materials proposed for use in ...

The U.S. government’s plan for safely storing nuclear waste just hit a serious snag: Exposure to groundwater could corrode its new storage containers, spilling radioactive materials into the Earth. To ...

Southeast New Mexico’s nuclear corridor extends miles through a desert dotted with sagebrush and known for its long stretches of lonely road. For years, people in this part of the state have relied on ...

Nuclear waste may yet be stored in Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The entrance to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository located in Nye County, Nev., is shown, Feb. 22, 2004. A federal appeals court ...

The last of 73 canisters of nuclear waste is lowered into its enclosure Friday at a dry storage facility at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (Southern California Edison) It took 32 months, ...

Researchers have integrated solar thermal energy and cascade waste heat utilization into a conventional liquid carbon dioxide energy storage system. Through system simulations, they evaluated energy, ...

Engineering professors and their students have been working for years on creating improved energy storage materials from sustainable sources, such as glass bottles, beach sand, Silly Putty, and ...